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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Friday 24 January 2014 23 Rabial I 1435 - Volume 18 Number 5954 Price: QR2 International Spain’s Rafa Islamic nets leads the pack QR750m profit in Qatar Business | 14 Sport | 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Sheikha Al Mayassa chairs Unesco meeting Foggy morning, School summer warmer Doha at night likely DOHA: It would be a foggy holidays begin morning today so visibility could be low, the Weather Bureau said yesterday. Visibility would gradually improve from four kilometres on June 29 early in the morning to eight later. The weather could be partly cloudy later in the day. The seas would be calm with the weather SEC calendar unifies vacation being hazy with some clouds. Wind direction inland would DOHA: This year’s summer will be working at least for one be southeasterly to southwesterly holidays for schools in Qatar week during the holy month of while offshore it would be south- begin on June 29 and end on Ramadan this year, while the next easterly. Wind speed inland is September 4, according to the two years, most of Ramadan will forecast to be between four and 12 academic calendar approved by fall within school working days. H E Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad Al Thani, Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of Qatar Museums Authority knots, while at sea the speed may the Supreme Education Council This year’s mid-term holidays and President of the 38th session of the World Heritage Committee, yesterday chaired a preparatory meeting increase up to 15 and 18 knots, (SEC). begin on Sunday and continue at the Unesco headquarters in Paris for the session to be held in Doha on June 16-25. The Qatari delega- particularly in the north. The schedule, unifying school until February 6. tion included H E Sheikh Hassan bin Mohammed Al Thani, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees of QMA, Day temperatures are likely to holidays in the country, would The schools that started their H E Sheikh Mishaal bin Hamad Al Thani, Qatar’s Ambassador to France, and Ali Zainal, Qatar’s Permanent range between 22 degrees Celsius apply to all Independent and pri- academic year last September will (in Al Khor) to 24 degrees in Representative to Unesco. vate schools, including commu- reopen on February 9 for their places like Mesaieed, Al Wakrah, nity schools. Teachers and other second term. Dukhan and Al Ruwais, and 25 employees of Independent schools Under directives from SEC, degrees in Doha and Abu Samra. will have a shorter summer break several expat schools have also Night temperatures in places — from July 13 to August 28. declared week-long holidays like Al Khor and Abu Samra could Given the schedule, schools from Sunday to comply with the New policy to regulate ads be 13 and 14 degrees, respectively. schedule. Doha would be warmer at night Last year some community with the minimum temperature Independent schools schools, especially Indian schools forecast being 16 degrees. In places secure 80-90pc pass that follow an academic calen- on mobile phones soon such as Mesaieed, Dukhan, Al dar different from Independent Wakrah and Al Ruwais, the night and international schools, were DOHA: A new policy to regu- The Ministry of or promoting their trade mark temperature would be around 15 in first-term exams exempted from this rule. late advertising and market- Telecommunications and and agreements must mention fee degrees. THE PENINSULA DOHA: Independent schools The vacation schedule for the ing of products and services Information Technology is fram- slabs, payment modes and other have secured 80 to 90 percent academic years 2013-2014, 2014- or promoting trade marks by ing new regulations that would necessary details. pass in the first-term exami- 2015 and 2015-2016 was included companies through telecom govern advertising, marketing of It would be illegal to carry mis- S Sudan, rebels nations, while schools are in a letter sent by the Minister of service providers like Ooredoo products and services through the leading information through such busy preparing for the offi- Education H E Dr Mohamed bin and Vodafone Qatar and Qatar aforesaid mediums, as also trade advertisements as the policy will sign ceasefire cial announcement of results, Abdul Wahed Al Hammadi to the National Broadband Company mark promotions. aim at protecting the consumer, according to Al Sharq. Cabinet, according to Al Sharq. (Qnbn) is on the anvil. The policy will also regulate Al Sharq reports. ADDIS ABABA: South Spring holidays for these The academic calendar includes New rules and regulations are relations between advertisers Qnbn is vital for Qatar’s future Sudan’s government and rebels schools begin on Sunday, mark- a four-day break during the sec- expected to be in place in about and service providers. The latter development serving the wider signed a ceasefire yesterday to ing the end of the first-term. ond term from April 13 to 17 this three months and would bar the will be required to prominently digitisation agenda of the coun- end more than five weeks of Under a new policy of Supreme year. advertising platforms from car- put their terms and conditions try. It has developed a complete fighting that divided Africa’s Education Council, results of all Mid-term holidays for the aca- rying any advertisement that can for their clients, along with fee products and services portfolio to newest nation and brought it to Independent schools must be demic year 2014-2015 begin on mislead consumers. slabs, on their websites. make available its ultra-broad- the brink of civil war. made available at the national January 26 and summer holidays The platforms will need to pro- Service providers must also band fiber connections and serv- The pact is expected to be network of examination results. from June 28 to September 3, vide detailed and correct infor- sign specific contracts with adver- ices to most homes and businesses implemented within 24 hours, THE PENINSULA 2015. THE PENINSULA mation to consumers through the tisers before carrying their mes- in Qatar. THE PENINSULA mediators said. REUTERS Continued on page 5 advertisements they carry. sages for marketing or advertising Continued on page 5 See also page 8 Model tram for Education City Syrian opposition One killed, 12 hurt in Riyadh blast RIYADH: One person died and 12 were injured when an explo- looks to future sion and subsequent fire occurred in a restaurant in Riyadh, Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported yesterday. without Assad A spokesman of the Directorate General of Civil Defence in Riyadh Region, Major Mohammed Al Hammadi, said in a statement that the GENEVA: Syria’s opposi- Civil Defence Operations Department received a report at 2pm that tion leader yesterday laid out an explosion and fire had occurred in a restaurant in Granada District. demands for talks on ending Teams from Civil Defence and Saudi Red Crescent Authority rushed the country’s civil war, call- to the site and doused the blaze. “Preliminary information indicates ing for the creation of a tran- that the incident was caused by a gas leak,” he added. sitional government that does not include President Bashar Al NSA data collection ‘illegal’ Assad. Ahmed Jarba told reporters in WASHINGTON: The US government’s privacy board has rebuked Geneva, where rival sides are due President Barack Obama over the National Security Agency’s mass to hold days of negotiations under collection of American phone data, saying the programme defended the auspices of the UN and major by Obama last week was illegal and ought to be shut down. world powers, that he was looking A divided Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, an independ- to a future without Assad. ent and long-troubled liberties advocate in the executive branch, issued In a defiant speech, Jarba said a report yesterday that concludes NSA’s collection of every US phone the international community had record on a daily basis violates legal restrictions of the statute cited now realised that Assad cannot A full-sized mock-up of a new Avenio tram for the ‘Doha Tram’ project in Education City was unveiled by Siemens to authorise it — Section 215 of the Patriot Act. See also page 10 stay in power. “We have started to yesterday. Qatar’s first and the Middle East’s most energy-efficient tram system to make the Education City AGENCIES look into the future without him. car-free will be operational by September 2016. Full report on page 2 Assad and all of his regime is in the past now. Nobody should have any doubt that the head of the regime is finished. This regime is dead.” Moscow, Assad’s major backer, Rowhani, Netanyahu spar at Davos economic forum had given assurances that it was not “holding on” to Assad, Jarba DAVOS: Iran yesterday Benjamin Netanyahu, also had “no connection with what is believed a full deal was achievable. Israel believes Iran remains said. Assad’s officials, who left stepped up attempts to nor- speaking at the forum, warned ongoing on the ground,” notably He also reiterated that the dangerously close to the capacity talks with a UN envoy without malise relations with the West the West not to take the media- in Syria, where he said Iranian regime would never give up its to build a nuclear missile which making any statement, insisted with a Davos charm offensive friendly Iranian’s offer at face Revolutionary Guards and its right to join some 40 countries would threaten the its existence. that the president is not going that was immediately attacked value, insisting there was no Hezbollah allies were fighting in acquiring the capacity to gen- Netanyahu denounced anywhere, a view endorsed by by Israel as a confidence trick.